[Bitcoin-development] BIP62 and future script upgrades

Gavin Andresen gavinandresen at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 14:01:37 UTC 2014


On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Luke suggested on the pull request to not apply this rule on every
> transaction with nVersion >= 3, which indeed solves the problem. I
> believe this can easily be generalized: make the (non mandatory) BIP62
> rules only apply to transaction with strict nVersion==3, and not to
> higher ones.
>

I agree; soft-forking is a useful way of rolling out upgrades, we shouldn't
prohibit it.

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Gavin Andresen
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